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Model/Entrepreneur Karlie Kloss attends as RH, Restoration Hardware celebrates the unveiling of RH New York at Restoration Hardware on September 5, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for RH)

Karlie Kloss poses with fans at the 2018 MTV Video Music Awards at Radio City Music Hall on August 20, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images for MTV)

Karlie Kloss and Derek Blasberg during #BoFVOICES on December 1, 2017 in Oxfordshire, England. (Photo by Stuart C. Wilson/Getty Images)

Model Karlie Kloss walks the runway during the 2017 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show In Shanghai at Mercedes-Benz Arena on November 20, 2017 in Shanghai, China. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for Victoria's Secret)

Victoria's Secret models Karlie Kloss, Ming Xi and Sui He pose during the All Model Appearance At Mercedes-Benz Arena on November 18, 2017 in Shanghai, China. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for Victoria's Secret)

Editor-in-Chief of Vogue Anna Wintour and model Karlie Kloss attend the Calvin Klein Collection fashion show during New York Fashion Week on September 7, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images)

Karlie Kloss attends the 2017 CFDA Fashion Awards Cocktail Hour at Hammerstein Ballroom on June 5, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Nicholas Hunt/Getty Images)

(L-R) Estelle Lefebure, Karlie Kloss, Erin O'Connor and Audrey Marnay attend the Christian Dior show as part of the Paris Fashion Week Womenswear Fall/Winter 2017/2018 on March 3, 2017 in Paris, France. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images for Dior)

NEW YORK, NY - DECEMBER 19: Karlie Kloss and her family (pictured) stop by the 4D VR Sleigh Ride Experience at Samsung VR Presents: The Night Before in Herald Square on December 19, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Ilya S. Savenok/Getty Images for Samsung)

PARIS, FRANCE - OCTOBER 05: Karlie Kloss attends the Louis Vuitton show as part of the Paris Fashion Week Womenswear Spring/Summer 2017 on October 5, 2016 in Paris, France. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)

NEW YORK, NY - FEBRUARY 15: Model Karlie Kloss (L) and designer Jeremy Scott pose backstage at the Jeremy Scott Fall 2016 fashion show during New York Fashion Week: The Shows at The Arc, Skylight at Moynihan Station on February 15, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images for NYFW: The Shows)

NEW YORK, NY - DECEMBER 01: Model Karlie Kloss speaks onstage at the L'Oreal Paris Women of Worth 2015 Celebration - Inside at The Pierre Hotel on December 1, 2015 in New York City. (Photo by Brian Ach/Getty Images for L'Oreal Paris)

(L-R) Models Jourdan Dunn, Karlie Kloss, Kendall Jenner and Gigi Hadid pose backstage at the Diane Von Furstenberg Spring 2016 fashion show during New York Fashion Week at Spring Studios on September 13, 2015 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)

NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 29: Model Karlie Kloss attends the adidas New York Flagship Preview Party on November 29, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Brad Barket/Getty Images for adidas)

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Supermodel Karlie Kloss will soon have Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump as in-laws, and she realizes that her marriage to Jared’s younger brother Joshua Kushner will inevitably be viewed in connection to the divisive presidency of Donald Trump.

But Kloss made clear in a new interview that she and Joshua Kushner do not share Trump’s politics. And while the White House senior advisors Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump may privately espouse social liberal leanings, they have hitched their careers and reputations to a president and administration that’s been criticized for being hostile to gun control, immigrants, people of color, the LGBT community and women’s access to reproductive rights and health care.

“Josh and I share a lot of the same liberal values that guide our lives and the things we stand for,” the 26-year-old model told Vogue.

Kloss and Joshua Kushner, 33, have been open about their political leanings, Vogue noted. Kloss voted for Hillary Clinton, while Joshua Kushner, said to be a life-long Democrat, raised millions for an Obamacare start-up company he founded.

Joshua Kushner also attended the Women’s March in Washington, D.C., the day after Trump was inaugurated, Teen Vogue reported. The next year, he and Kloss participated in the March for Our Lives gun-control demonstration, with Kloss posting a photo of herself on Instagram, holding a sign that read, “Load minds not guns.”

Kloss became engaged to Kushner in the spring, after they had been dating since she was 19 and they met at a dinner party. They kept their engagement private for a month before Kloss revealed it in an Instagram post in June.

But when Ivanka Trump posted a congratulatory comment on Kloss’ social-media announcement, saying she was “blessed” to have Kloss as her “sister,” the rumor mill began churning, according to Vogue.

For one thing, people wondered whether Kloss would convert to Orthodox Judaism like Ivanka Trump did before marrying Jared Kushner. And people couldn’t help but ask, how close are Kloss and Ivanka Trump?

Kloss wouldn’t go near to answering these questions in her Vogue interview. All she would say is that she understands why they come up, even though it’s “frustrating” that she gets less attention for her career than for her relationship. But she accepts the “complications” that come with marrying a man with a tangential connection to the Trump family.

“At the end of the day, I’ve had to make decisions based on my own moral compass — forget what the public says, forget social media,” she said. “I’ve chosen to be with the man I love despite the complications. It’s frustrating, to be honest, that the spotlight is always shifted away from my career toward my relationship. I don’t think the same happens in conversations with men.”

The main purpose of the interview was for Kloss to talk about the Kode for Klossy summer camps for teenage girls she founded. The computer coding camps are for teenage girls interested in tech careers; Kloss became interested in coding after taking a class at New York University. In the interview, she said she had been math and science nerd as a girl who once dreamed of being a pediatrician before she got into modeling.

“We’ve really grown together personally and professionally,” said Kloss. “Josh knows that I’m just a nerdy, curious human being. I think that’s why he loves me. We have each other’s back.”

Martha Ross is a features writer who covers everything and anything related to popular culture, society, health, women’s issues and families. A native of the East Bay and a graduate of Northwestern University and Mills College, she’s also a former hard-news and investigative reporter, covering crime and local politics.

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